Top 5 Headphones for Gaming

How can Sennheiser’s name not be there in any list having to do with heapdhones? We personally review a lot of their products as and when they release, and they release stuff regularly. But the HD 202 are not touted by them as gaming, in fact they have a model called “HD 201 G4ME”. I’ve heard those too, and the HD 202 definitely has better bass response, and are better headphones overall.

The closed back, circumaural design is pretty basic but also very neat looking, with huge white fonts for the Sennheiser logo print, on the headband sides. The rest is black matte- very classy. The leatherette is of good quality, and also appears on the underside of the headband as a soft patch. The weight too is quite light, thus comfortable.

Sound quality wise the output, as mentioned, has a very nice bass response, which goes down low and stays audible there. Even though the sensitivity is rated high, it’s not the loudest one in today’s group, but definitely has a sound more like the SteelSeries - its soundscape is quite open and doesn’t bog you down. This combined with the light weight makes for a chilled out listen. The highs are spacey and not jarring or edgy.

Good: Very open and quite balanced soundscape, reasonable price.
Bad: Could use a bit of thump in the lows.
Rating: 4 out of 5

Specs
Frequency response: 18 – 18,000 Hz
Impedance: 32 Ohm
Sensitivity:  115 dBSPL @1kHz, 1V